Wall construction



G. 1. STANTON.

. .1919. y 1,357,125. Patented ont. 26,1920.

UNITED *STATES PATENT Y GARRETT er. STANTON, or Los ANGELES, CALITORNIA.

WALL CONSTRUCTION.

To LZZ whom t may concernz. l f I Be itlnownthat I, GANRETT. JSTANTON,

a citizen of ther-United States, and resident ing connected at its endsto the neXt adja cent upper and lower channels respectively whereby acontinuous air channel is formed the entire height of the wall,y thechannel extending in opposite directions in each alternate coursewhereby a draft is created and caused to liow through the wall therebymaterially reducing'the temperature of the interior of the building.

I accomplish this object by the wall construction described herein andillustrated inr the accompanying drawings forming a part hereof inwhich: Y- n Y Figure l is a perspective View of a fragment of a wallconstructed according to my invention. n

Fig. 2 is a perspective detail, partly broken away, of one form of mytile.

.Fig 3 is a perspective View of mycorner tile. f Fig. l is across-sectional perspective showing the method of connecting the airchannels. r A

In the drawings Iny wall proper is formed of courses inthe usual manner,each courseA 5 being composed of'pairs of tile 6 which are substantiallyU-shaped in cross section; The tile of each pair are laid reverselytoyeach other, that is the yopen faces of each pair of tile are positionedfacing each other Specification of Letters Patent. y Patented,0am` 126',Application med January 14, 1919.v serial No. 271,006.A 7

; therebyv forming.. a-rectangular lchannel, 7.1 `Atthe ends thesechannels are connected by a passage` which extends kthroughv thebody iof the tile as best shown invFig. 4. -It'will understood that theseconnections are provided at .alternate` ends of the wall courses.

Inl otherk words` the connection from the lower channel tothe one nextabove will be at onefend of the wall and the con@ nection `from thislastchannel `will be at the opposite end ofthe wall thus causingfthe airto vpass entirelyr `along, each course before :entering the 'courseknext above, thereby forming a continuous air space Lthe entire length.and height of the wall. In Fig. 3 I

have shown my form of corner tile. In this tile the channel 9 isfturnedat alright angle near its end to connect with the channel of thewallforming the side.`

Having described my invention what I claim is: f y f A wall constructioncomposedl of a plu` rality of pairs of tile, saidtile being sub.k

fstantially U-shaped in transverse cross sec-` tion, the tile of eachpair being laid with theiry open sides inregister vand forming acontinuous air channel the entire length of each course, the tile ofeach, course beingr laid reversely to the adjacent tile in each adacentcourse ythe tile forminor the endsof 3 2:3

said wall having a portion of the horizontal Vconnecting members cutaway to form a connection between two adjacent ainchannels,` saidconnections being positioned `at opposite ends ofthe wall yin adjacentcourses,

whereby acontinuous air channelis formed extending in alternatedirections through adjacent courses throughout.l the entire' y heightofthe wall. f

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ia Witness that I @nim um, fregiflg I have hereunto subscribed-mynamethis 21st dayjof December, 1918.` n GARRELTT J. STANTON.

